The last two performances for the senior standout from Santa Margarita Catholic of Rancho Santa Margarita wound up being the difference in a close call over two others. Mosley is the first-ever winner of the state’s longest-running player of the year honor from his school, but he’s the eighth in the last 10 years from […]
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2025 Football Coaching Milestones
For this year, we are going to compile the annual feature on football coaching highlights before we announce the annual state coaches of the year instead of afterwards. We also produce this feature after all of our state coaching record lists have been updated. We’re now getting close to 150 who have won 200 games […]
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
Our final state rankings for each season take some extra time as we go over everything seen and reported since these won’t ever change and will be the rankings that go into our archives of final state rankings for every season since 1975. After the CIF state final results, Mission Viejo gets a bump to...
Santa Margarita State Team of Year 2025
While the Mater Dei-St. John Bosco era of dominance in California has ended at nine years, the Trinity League that those two teams play in has just produced a different parochial school to rule at the top of the state for another season. And the way that Santa Margarita played on both sides of the […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
Santa Margarita completes dominant playoff run with big win vs De La Salle to win its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday at Saddleback College. The Eagles (11-3) just got better and better and better in every playoff game. It also capped a day in which two other undefeated teams had their seasons […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
We have more historical info in our archives than anyone so we have some tidbits on the teams in these games unmatched by anyone else. For the games played at Saddleback College, we have Santa Margarita, Cathedral Catholic, Central East, St. Mary’s of Stockton and Sonora as winners. It’s hard to pick a winner obviously […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With Santa Margarita, Folsom & Pittsburg all winning section titles, there were no changes in this week’s rankings down to No. 13 and No. 14, which are now owned by Cathedral Catholic and Los Alamitos. Pacifica of Oxnard also jumps seven spots this week with Serra of San Mateo going up by six but not...
State FB Roundup & Final Projections
Here is a one-stop place to find all of this weekend’s CIF section championship scores from across the state with some highlights from many of the games. It’s also where we’ve placed all of the teams the way we see them for this year’s regional bowl game matchups. The CIF section commissioners will meet on […]
State Football Players of the Week
One of this week’s honorees plays for the No. 1 ranked team in the state, another is a state reported leader and two more got the nod for huge outings against unbeaten foes. This week’s group hail from Rancho Santa Margarita, Los Angeles and Solana Beach in Southern California and Manteca, Orland and Ripon in […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Since we’ve always gone by head-to-head results, it’s easy to now put Santa Margarita with the No. 1 state ranking for the first time in school history. After their win over previous No. 1 Sierra Canyon, they have wins over the other three teams also still going in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De...
